An unusually strong storm system called an atmospheric river is dousing Southern California. National Weather Service forecasters warned it could produce rockslides and debris flows in Los Angeles areas ravaged by wildfires earlier this year.

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot

Word.

Hypocrites Turn Sycophants When Carrots Are Dangled

The Trump administration is expanding its deep-sea mining ambitions to the region around the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific. The move disregards unified opposition from Indigenous leaders in American Samoa, who imposed a moratorium on seabed mining last year. The latest from @grist.org:

Watch this and suddenly your own problems won’t feel so heavy. The good news: people stepped up and raised about $246 k+ on GoFundMe to help this woman and her baby. There really are good people out there.

The disappearance of thicker #Arctic sea ice by decade in November... More info on this data: climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data...

Assessments of government action on climate change—and public desire for climate action—should always explicitly consider how much cajoling and lobbying and pressure from oil and gas there is to do nothing. This is a fight; not (just) a technological transition. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of ‘don’t say climate’ politics. Talking about climate change may be politically radioactive, but adjusting to its effects is no longer optional. grist.org/language/flo... #Florida #FL #Politics #Language

“We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away.”

More than 70 percent of Americans—regardless of party—say they’re concerned about rising utility payments. Trump, undeterred by reality, is claiming that “our energy prices are down.” Voters have taken notice.

“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” ― Wendell Berry

A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

“Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane: STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification

Climate change - from CO₂ to crisis. It starts with accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions but leads to multiple global repercussions. Climate change isn’t a distant threat — it’s a systemic chain reaction already in motion & steadily increasing in severity.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... @bigclimate.bsky.social

"The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent." - Alfred Brendel

"Climate-related disasters forcibly displaced 250 million people globally over the past decade, the equivalent of 70,000 displacements every day, according to a report by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR). The figure includes people who have been displaced multiple times." #ClimateCrisis

"He aggressively wrote this very expansive opinion, ignoring the language of the Constitution that says in two places, the job of the president is to faithfully execute the law. And nothing could be less faithful than breaking the law." - Pema Levy

Impossible to ignore what’s happening to #Arctic temperatures in the month of November... Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

If you were born after 1976 — which is two thirds of humanity — you've never experienced a colder-than-average year. That is, a year when the global mean surface temperature was below the 20th-century average (1901-2000 baseline).

"Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff." -Carl Sagan

📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling. ➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)

"Methane is a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide and is responsible for about a third of the warming recently recorded. Cutting it could be an “emergency brake” on global temperatures, but so far, countries have not taken the measures needed."

BREAKING: Senate takes first step to end government shutdown after some moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health care subsidies, angering many in their caucus who say Americans want them to continue the fight.

Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in October 2025, with recent warming really amplifying since the early 2000s. This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every October from 1854-2025 using NOAA ERSSTv5 data (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...).

This sucks. Now space stations will be privatized and profit driven. What could go wrong?

Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢 Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain. That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.

Super Typhoon Fung-wong, the biggest storm to threaten the Philippines this year, started battering the country’s northeastern coast ahead of landfall on Sunday, knocking down power, forcing the evacuation of more than a million people.

More than one million evacuated in the Philippines as super typhoon Fung-wong draws nearer

What do you get when you combine malignant narcissism with dementia? An existential threat. Via @thetimes.com Radio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OtO...

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Freedom to think or believe is something entirely separate from freedom to impose your thoughts or beliefs on others. If freedom is to mean anything, then government should protect not the right to impose, but the freedom from that imposition.

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

Perimeter Institute is doing a series profiling their researchers; here's mine! Featuring airplanes, of course. You can check out some of the other profiles here: perimeterinstitute.ca/outreach/we-...

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

“I helped make a film, out this week, called ‘Rovina’s Choice,’ about the deaths [men] without conscience or accountability [Musk, Trump, and Rubio] caused [by dismantling USAID] — already 600,000, two-thirds of them children.” @agawande.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/agaw... bsky.app/profile/ifin...

"Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter." -Carl Sagan, Broca's Brain

Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away. "The current administration has successfully and systematically defunded most of its institutions providing the most scientifically sound information and educational materials about climate change." www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

It's not every day that both poles set new monthly temperature records (see my earlier post). Last month also observed the warmest October on record for the #Arctic Circle. Not great!! Data provided by doi.org/10.24381/cds....

We created a system where those most lacking in basic human decency and empathy attain the most wealth, influence, and power. What could possibly go wrong? #Trillionaires #ElonMusk

“We found that the most effective interventions were those that show #climatechange is already affecting people and their way of life may be changed or lost due to climate change.” "That connection between personal impact and motivation seems to be key."

China is, without a doubt, leading global efforts to slash emissions from dirty industries. But the U.S. and dozens of other countries are still making significant progress.

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package. Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, can't afford to feed their families, and struggle with cuts to the safety net made to finance tax cuts for the super-rich. American capitalism is off the rails.

As Earth continues to warm, coral reef die-off is the first domino to fall. But other climate tipping points may not be far behind. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/coral-collapse-climate-tipping-point

Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN

Trends in November temperatures over land areas (where we live) for the last 50 years... 🔥 Data from NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)

Reconstructing October #Arctic sea ice extent since 1850... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social at doi.org/10.7265/jj4s...